Smart coating opens door to safer hip, knee and dental implants. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2010 / 02 / 100203101120.htm ...

Total knee arthroplasty implants with porous and hydroxyapatite coatings and fixation pegs had similar clinical outcomes and survivorship rates compared with knee implants with a porous coating ...

A hybrid implant coating made from antibacterial silver and an antibiotic will protect patients from infection in the future. The antibiotic is tailored to the patient's unique requirements for ...

Dr Manuj Wadhwa For years, traditional knee replacement surgery has relied on bone cement to secure implants, a method that ...

Applications expected to benefit from the use of Laserapatite include hip implants and knee implants. The latter are being tested with a coating system that operates in air, incorporating YAG and CO 2 ...

This coating was tested in a so-called total disc replacement -- a mobile disc implant. We simulated 100 million cycles, i.e. about 100 years of movement in a specially designed joint simulator.

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a "smart coating" that helps dental and other surgical implants bond more closely with bone and ward off infection. When patients have hip ...

Researchers have developed an improved coating technique that could strengthen the connection between titanium joint-replacement implants and a patients' own bone. Implants coated with "flower ...

In the US alone, there are more than 100,000 cases of orthopedic device-related infections. A 2017 Australian study showed a 1.7% infection rate post-hip or knee replacements.

When patients have hip, knee or dental replacement surgery, they run the risk of having their bodies reject the implant. But the smart coating developed at NC State mitigates that risk by ...